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the production of the Irish potato at its best, 

 improved methods and a quahty continually being 

 bettered, a rolling surface well adapted to the use 

 of improved farm machinery, and a product that 

 of itself cannot be matched for either seed pur- 

 poses or table use, together with competing trans- 

 portation lines to tidewater, the next decade should 

 see the present output more than doubled. " 



The following interesting information is from the 

 Bangor Aroostook Railroad, Bangor, Maine: 



"Maine has long been famous for its wealth of 

 timber-lands, its summer resorts and great game 

 country. The preeminence of the Aroostook po- 

 tato is winning for the state new and constantly 

 increasing fame. Because of the remarkable yield 

 and exceptional quality of the crops, the Aroostook 

 potato country has come to be known as the gar- 

 den spot of New England, and in many ways it is 

 attracting more attention than any other agricul- 

 tural section of the country. 



"The Aroostook potato is known the country 

 over. Millions of bushels are shipped to Boston, 

 New York, and other centres for domestic use, while 

 thousands of carloads are called for from all parts 

 of the country for seed purposes. Wherever it is 

 planted the Aroostook potato varieties retain the 

 characteristics which have made them famous, and 

 they also adapt themselves to conditions of soil 

 and climate supposedly much different from those 

 of Maine. In Virginia, for instance, where the 

 paramount object is to hasten the early crop, the 

 Aroostook potato matures from a week to a fort- 

 night earlier than other varieties. 



"The development of the Aroostook country, a 



